junitreport ant task giving java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Question

I\'m running junit tests from an ant script. The tests run successfully so ant moves on to the the junitreport task to create the html report. This task is failing with a

Answer 1

You can use the maxmemory set within junit task itself.

As the docs explain,

Maximum amount of memory to allocate to the forked VM. Ignored if fork is disabled. Note: If you get java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space in some of your tests then you need to raise the size like maxmemory="128m"